KAASH

Royal Festival Hall choreographer in residence Akram Khan teams up with the celebrated talents of Anish Kapoor (set design) and Nitin Sawhney (composer) to present his company's first full length evening work Kaash (Hindi word for "if"). "Hindu Gods, black holes, Indian time cycles, tablas, creation and destruction" are the starting points for this new work for 2002.

Danced by a five - strong international cast of performers, Kaash continues Akram Khan's quest to build bridges between the worlds of contemporary dance and the Indian classical dance form Kathak. Born in the UK of Bangladeshi origin, award winning choreographer Akram Khan is highly skilled in both dance techniques. Khan teams up with some of the most gifted composers, lighting/set designers and dancers currently working in Britain and abroad. The result is choreography that is intelligent, compelling and beautiful to watch. This third generation British Asian has surely joined the ranks of young artists bringing new vitality to cross-cultural expression in the world today.

'It is important that we remind ourselves of the value of that which we cannot touch. Is it not true that the empty space inside the cup is what renders it useful? Similarly, the stillness between steps, the spaces between musical phrases and the empty spaces in space itself contain all the mysteries of their eventual forms', says Khan.

Kaash

Choreography Akram Khan
Music Nitin Sawhney
Additional Music "Spectre" by John Oswald played by The Kronos Quartet
Set design Anish Kapoor
Lighting design Aideen Malone
Costumes Saeunn Huld
Dancers Akram Khan, Rachel Krische, Moya Michael, Inn Pang Ooi, Shanell Winlock

Kaash UK Tour Schedule 2002